{"id":230476,"date":"2025-09-16T04:32:19","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230476\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T04:32:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:32:19","slug":"scholes-slams-transfer-criminal-offence-as-second-big-issue-for-amorim-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/230476\/","title":{"rendered":"Scholes slams transfer &#8216;criminal offence&#8217; as second &#8216;big issue&#8217; for Amorim revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Scholes claims Manchester United committed a \u201ccriminal offence\u201d in the transfer window this summer as the Red Devils legend highlighted the \u201cbig issue\u201d which remains unresolved under Ruben Amorim.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-city-man-utd-16-conclusions-haaland-amorim-foden-mbeumo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">United whimpered in a 3-0 defeat to Manchester City on Sunday<\/a><\/strong>, meaning they\u2019ve won just one of their opening five games of the season, which includes the harrowing League Cup defeat to League Two Grimsby Town.<\/p>\n<p>The Amorim sack chat has ramped up a few notches following the latest defeat amid claims the Portuguese boss is \u2018losing the dressing room\u2019 as \u2018senior players grow frustrated\u2019 over his failing philosophy and system.<\/p>\n<p>But he\u2019s not for moving, and nailed his colours to the 3-4-3 mast again when asked about his unwillingness to tweak his formation to suit his players.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t change my philosophy,\u201d Amorim said. \u201cIf they [United hierarchy] want it changed, you change the man.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am not going to change my philosophy. I will play my way until I want to change. Guys, I understand [the questions] and I accept it is not a record you should have at Man United. But there are a lot of things that you have no idea about what happen in the last months.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI understand everything. It is normal [if fans are losing faith], but I don\u2019t accept that we are not doing better. We are doing better and the results don\u2019t show that, the record says everything, I understand.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy message is I will do everything. I will give everything. It is not my decision, the rest. I will do my best. I am suffering more than [the fans].\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>MORE ON RUBEN AMORIM\u2019S FUTURE FROM F365<\/strong><br \/><strong>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/opinion-man-utd-amorim-sack-imminent-new-romano-update-clear-hint-ineos-verdict\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man Utd: Amorim sack could be imminent as new Romano update reveals hint at INEOS verdict<\/a><\/strong><br \/><strong>\ud83d\udc49 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/amorim-sack-closer-goads-man-utd-into-action\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Amorim sack moves closer as he goads Man Utd into action after derby mauling<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\ud83d\udc49\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.football365.com\/news\/man-utd-incredible-ruben-amorim-sack-stance-lost-puppy-burnley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Man Utd take \u2018incredible\u2019 Ruben Amorim sack stance after \u2018lost puppy\u2019 demeanour at Man City<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>And Scholes suggested the United boss is being hampered by the \u201cquality\u201d in his ranks, particularly the lack of a suitable midfielder and top goalkeeper.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think the quality is there,\u201d he told <strong><a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/articles\/cewndg799yro\" target=\"_blank\">BBC Radio 5 Live\u2019s Monday Night Club<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhatever two out of the four or five they have got in [midfield] \u2013 Casemiro, Bruno [Fernandes], [Kobbie] Mainoo \u2013 whatever combination he seems to try doesn\u2019t seem to work.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s a big issue. I thought all summer, the absolute priority was a centre-midfield player with legs, who can play and can control a game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGoalkeeper was [also] a major issue. Did they really need to get to the Grimsby game to realise [Andre] Onana is not good enough?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf Manchester United were not in the market for Gianluigi Donnarumma when he became available, that is criminal offence.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe recruitment side went to buy forwards. That did need addressing but did it need three of them? I\u2019m not sure it did.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paul Scholes claims Manchester United committed a \u201ccriminal offence\u201d in the transfer window this summer as the Red&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":230477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[204,3782,50,78958,12445,221,62,9656,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-230476","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-front-page","9":"tag-manchester-united","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-paul-scholes","12":"tag-ruben-amorim","13":"tag-soccer","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-uncategorized","16":"tag-united-states","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115212107327445947","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}